Graduate students may soon be able to take a master's level course to teach students why "Black Minds Matter." The San Diego State University curriculum was created by professor J. Luke Wood. And for those who are worried that the class may be too radical (or re-enforce the notion that college campuses are skewing far too liberal), brace yourselves. Wood said the point of the course is to teach professors how to "train and prepare educators to mobilize their classrooms around the Black Lives Matter guiding principles" of loving engagement and restorative justice, among others. Wood said his goal is to "change the paradigm in how teachers see their role in education." The course has managed to bring conservative groups and civil rights activists together on at least one point — dropping its funding. Members in both camps have lodged complaints with SDSU about the course's use of public money. Wood's response? This class is not about developing radicals; it's about a radical new way of making sure that young black boys are nurtured in the classroom.

Body slammed for car keys

What reason would an Aurora, Colo., cop have for choking a woman and forcing her to the ground? The woman scratched him and drew blood, he said. But the altercation seems to have started over car keys, and appears to end with him kicking her in the head.

OyZhana Williams, 23, has filed a lawsuit against Sgt. Michael Hawkins and two other officers on the Aurora police force for the incident, which happened one night in December 2015. The confrontation occurred outside the University of Colorado Hospital, and was caught on hospital surveillance cameras. Williams had taken her boyfriend, who had been shot, to the hospital's emergency room. When officers asked for her car keys, so they could examine her vehicle as part of their investigation, she refused to hand them over. That's when the incident appears to have escalated. Hawkins placed his hands around Williams' neck and forced her to the ground. Other officers held her down while Hawkins appears to kick her in the head.

Hawkins' name may sound familiar. He was lauded as a hero in 2012 for carrying a little girl out of a movie theater in Aurora after a mass shooting that left 12 dead.

Another Georgia cop in hot water

Not long after one Georgia cop was shown on camera stating that police "only kill black people," another officer is on trial, accused of planting evidence and faking her own shooting in an apparent attempt to frame a black man.

Sherry Hall, who was fired from the Jackson police force last year, has been charged with 11 counts including evidence tampering and violating her oath as an officer. She pleaded not guilty on Tuesday.

Hall stated that on Sept. 13, 2016, she had an altercation with a black man who had been sitting on the ground in a neighborhood she was patrolling. She said the man shot her, but that she was protected by her bulletproof vest. But her car's camera appears to show that she shot herself and that there never was a black male suspect, according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.

It happened at the VMA awards, likely the last place you might expect a pastor to deliver a speech, especially not a pastor who was named after his descendant and Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.

Robert W. Lee IV, the leader of a church in North Carolina, called for unity, racial reconciliation and stated that folks can "find inspiration in the Black Lives Matter movement," in his introduction of Susan Bro, the mother of killed Charlottesville protester Heather Heyer, during the Aug. 27 awards ceremony.

On Tuesday, after blowback from his parishioners, Lee announced his resignation.

Members of the Cleveland Browns kneel during the national anthem before an NFL preseason football game.(Photo: Ron Schwane, AP)

Cops won't kneel down. They'll bow out.

A long-held tradition won't be held this year, at least not by Cleveland police officers. Cops will not be on the field Sunday propping up the American flag during the pre-game opener between the Cleveland Browns and the Pittsburgh Steelers. Officers were offended by members of the football team taking a knee in the preseason, according to a Cleveland police union. Twelve members of the Browns knelt during the national anthem on Aug. 21. The Browns' move follows protests by former San Francisco quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who took a knee during the national anthem in 2016 to protest police brutality.